Lin Shaye
Linda "Lin" Shaye (born 1944) is an American film, theatre and television actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lin Shaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Oct 12, 1943 In Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Hester Street 1975-10-19
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Old World 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Old World | The Aunt (voice) | 2025 |
| Movie | Frank and Penelope | Ophelia | 2022-06-03 |
| Movie | Living with Chucky | Self | 2022-08-13 |
| Movie | Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story | Self | 2022-10-07 |
| Movie | Ambition | Lady Bum | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | Room for Rent | Joyce | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | The Grudge | Faith Matheson | 2019-12-31 |
| Movie | Insidious: The Last Key | Élise Rainier | 2018-01-03 |
| Movie | Grow House | Mrs. Gilliam | 2017-04-20 |
| Movie | The Black Room | Miss Black | 2017-04-28 |
| Movie | Buster's Mal Heart | Pauline | 2017-05-28 |
| Movie | All About the Money | Mrs. Womack | 2017-06-02 |
| Movie | Jack Goes Home | Teresa | 2016-03-14 |
| Movie | Director's Cut | Captain Wheeler | 2016-07-19 |
| Movie | Texas Heart | Mrs. Smith | 2016-05-20 |
| Movie | The Midnight Man | Anna | 2016-09-30 |
| Movie | Ouija: Origin of Evil | Old Paulina Zander | 2016-10-20 |
| Movie | Abattoir | Allie | 2016-11-24 |
| Movie | Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha | The Grand Lady | 2015-01-07 |
| Movie | Insidious: Chapter 3 | Elise Rainier | 2015-05-28 |
| Movie | Tales of Halloween | Lynn's Mother | 2015-10-16 |
| Movie | Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves | Helen Keller | 2015-10-01 |
| Movie | The Signal | Mirabelle | 2014-03-15 |
| Movie | Lost Time | Mysterious Woman | 2014-09-19 |
| Movie | Ouija | Paulina Zander | 2014-10-24 |
| Movie | Grace | Helen | 2014-10-28 |
| Movie | Crazy Kind of Love | Denise Mack | 2013-05-31 |
| Movie | Noobz | Mrs. Theodore | 2013-01-25 |
| Movie | Insidious: Chapter 2 | Elise Rainier | 2013-09-12 |
| Movie | Big Ass Spider! | Mrs. Jefferson | 2013-10-17 |
| Movie | All American Christmas Carol | Barbara Belnap | 2013-11-05 |
| Movie | Jewtopia | Dr. Sutton | 2012-04-26 |
| Movie | 3 Days of Normal | May | 2012-06-02 |
| Movie | The Three Stooges | Nurse Crotchet | 2012-04-13 |
| Movie | Matchmaker Santa | Debbie | 2012-11-21 |
| Movie | Life's an Itch | Gloria | 2012-12-01 |
| Movie | FDR: American Badass! | Eleanor Roosevelt | 2012-09-24 |
| Movie | Take Me Home | Jill | 2011-03-02 |
| Movie | Sedona | Claire | 2011-02-19 |
| Movie | I Was a Teenage Werebear | 2011-09-01 | |
| Movie | Insidious | Elise Rainier | 2011-03-31 |
| Movie | Chillerama | Baglady / Nurse Maleva | 2011-10-14 |
| Movie | A Good Old Fashioned Orgy | Dody | 2011-09-02 |
| Movie | Rosewood Lane | Mrs. Hawthorne | 2011-10-15 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Killer by Nature | Leona | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | Small Town Saturday Night | Phyllis Ryan | 2010-05-31 |
| Movie | The Penthouse | Frances | 2010-03-02 |
| Movie | Pickin' and Grinnin' | Bonnie Johnson | 2010-04-17 |
| Movie | 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams | Granny Boone | 2010-07-20 |
| Movie | Farewell Mr. Kringle | Zelda | 2010-12-04 |
| Movie | Black Limousine | 2010-10-19 | |
| Movie | Next Stop Murder | Detective Reeson | 2010-09-19 |
| Movie | My Sister's Keeper | Nurse Adele | 2009-06-26 |
| Movie | American Cowslip | Lou Anne | 2009-07-24 |
| Movie | Dark Moon Rising | Sunny | 2009-10-10 |
| Movie | Stuntmen | Bumble Jackson | 2009-08-18 |
| Movie | Killer Pad | Marge | 2008-02-05 |
| Movie | Asylum | String's Mother | 2008-03-20 |
| Movie | Doggie Heaven | Woman | 2008-11-24 |
| Movie | Chronic Town | Nurse | 2008-04-03 |
| Movie | Homo Erectus | Museum Guide | 2007-07-10 |
| Movie | The Election | The Wife | 2007-07-12 |
| Movie | Bachelor Party Vegas | Cassandra | 2006-04-25 |
| Movie | Unbeatable Harold | Jeannie | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | Down the P.C.H. | Wendy O'Hara | 2006-09-01 |
| Movie | Hoboken Hollow | Mrs. Brodrick | 2006-01-04 |
| Movie | Surf School | Larry's Mom | 2006-09-01 |
| Movie | Pledge This! | Miss Prin | 2006-12-01 |
| Movie | Driftwood | Nancy Forrester | 2006-10-20 |
| Movie | Hate Crime | Kathleen Slansky | 2005-01-14 |
| Movie | Confessions of an Action Star | Samantha Jones | 2005-01-23 |
| Movie | Born Killers | Willow | 2005-01-01 |
| Series | My Name Is Earl | Unknown | 2005-09-20 |
| Movie | 2001 Maniacs | Granny Boone | 2005-05-12 |
| Movie | Drop Dead Sexy | Ma Muzzy | 2005-03-12 |
| Movie | Who's Your Daddy? | Ms. Harding | 2004-01-07 |
| Movie | The Almost Guys | Repo Boss | 2004-03-03 |
| Movie | A Cinderella Story | Mrs. Wells | 2004-07-16 |
| Movie | The Hillside Strangler | Jenny Buono | 2004-11-12 |
| Movie | Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd | Margie | 2003-04-14 |
| Movie | Dead End | Laura Harrington | 2003-12-12 |
| Movie | Barely Legal | Tequlia | 2003-05-15 |
| Movie | Contagion | Laura Crowley | 2002-05-15 |
| Movie | Wish You Were Dead | Jinny Macintosh | 2002-05-21 |
| Movie | Boat Trip | Sonya the Coach | 2002-10-01 |
| Movie | Say It Isn't So | Nurse Bautista | 2001-03-10 |
| Movie | Me, Myself & Irene | Mrs. Caleron | 2000-06-22 |
| Movie | Attention Shoppers | Libby | 2000-09-21 |
| Movie | Detroit Rock City | Mrs. Bruce | 1999-08-13 |
| Movie | Breakfast with Einstein | Miss Desmond | 1998-05-24 |
| Movie | There's Something About Mary | Magda | 1998-07-15 |
| Movie | Living Out Loud | Lisa's Nurse | 1998-10-30 |
| Movie | Quicksilver Highway | Woman at Carnival (uncredited) | 1997-05-13 |
| Movie | Trading Favors | Darla | 1997-06-04 |
| Movie | Last Man Standing | The Madame | 1996-09-20 |
| Movie | Project: ALF | Waitress | 1996-02-17 |
| Movie | Kingpin | Landlady | 1996-07-04 |
| Movie | Sketch Artist II: Hands That See | Bonnie | 1995-01-28 |
| Movie | Nature of the Beast | Carol Powell | 1995-10-23 |
| Movie | Trial by Fire | Phyliis Cardell | 1995-10-01 |
| Movie | Corrina, Corrina | Repeat Nanny | 1994-08-12 |
| Movie | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Rubber Rose Maid | 1994-05-13 |
| Movie | Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter | Inmate | 1994-10-14 |
| Movie | New Nightmare | Nurse with Pills | 1994-10-13 |
| Movie | Dumb and Dumber | Mrs. Neugeboren | 1994-12-16 |
| Movie | The Temp | Rosemary | 1993-02-12 |
| Movie | Three of Hearts | Operator | 1993-04-30 |
| Movie | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 | Witness | 1993-02-04 |
| Series | Frasier | Anne | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | Brain Smasher... A Love Story | Make up Artist | 1993-11-17 |
| Movie | Amityville: A New Generation | Nurse Turner | 1993-09-29 |
| Movie | Roadside Prophets | Celeste | 1992-03-27 |
| Movie | Book of Love | Mrs. Flynn | 1990-08-03 |
| Movie | Pump Up the Volume | PTA Parent #3 | 1990-08-22 |
| Movie | Lucky Stiff | Bratty Kid's Mom | 1988-11-01 |
| Movie | Critters 2 | Sally | 1988-04-29 |
| Movie | Extreme Prejudice | Employment Office Clerk | 1987-04-24 |
| Movie | Stillwatch | 1987-02-10 | |
| Movie | My Demon Lover | Anemic Counter Girl | 1987-04-24 |
| Movie | Slam Dance | Librarian | 1987-10-02 |
| Movie | The Running Man | Propaganda Officer | 1987-11-13 |
| Movie | The Hidden | Carol Miller | 1987-10-30 |
| Movie | Critters | Sally | 1986-04-11 |
| Movie | Brewster's Millions | Journalist at Rally | 1985-05-22 |
| Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1985-09-27 |
| Movie | Summer Fantasy | Woman on Beach | 1984-05-25 |
| Movie | Why Me? | 1984-03-12 | |
| Series | Cagney & Lacey | Unknown | 1982-03-25 |
| Movie | Alone in the Dark | Receptionist at Haven | 1982-11-12 |
| Movie | Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again | Nurse with Telegram | 1982-11-10 |
| Series | Falcon Crest | Unknown | 1981-12-04 |
| Movie | The Long Riders | Kate | 1980-05-16 |
| Movie | A Cry for Love | 1980-10-20 | |
| Movie | The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal | Freida | 1979-01-30 |
| Movie | The Seeding of Sarah Burns | 2nd Nurse | 1979-04-07 |
| Movie | Goin' South | Parasol Lady | 1978-10-06 |
| Movie | Hester Street | Whore | 1975-10-19 |